# How Do You Help Someone Who is Dying?

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Podcast: [Buddhism Beyond Belief with Susan Piver](https://stenobird.com/podcast/buddhism-beyond-belief-with-susan-piver-7581346)
Published: 2026-07-24T09:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail This is a shorter episode, recorded while my family and I accompany my mother through hospice care. I reflect on an instruction I received when I first learned to meditate: resting more fully on the out breath than the in breath. As I prepare to be with my mother at the end of her life, that instruction has taken on new meaning. I share a few experiences that have shaped how I understand death, presence, and what it means to simply be there when a loved one is dying. Highligh...

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